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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Xi-feng's personality as an overbearing mistress come to light in the Ning house?
(a) She severely punishes a servant for forgetting to wash some dirty laundry.
(b) She severely punishes a servant for being late to work.
(c) She shouts at all the servants as a group for half an hour.
(d) She admonishes each servant individually for any mistake they make.

2. With whom does Bao-yu spend his evening after being scolded by Aroma for defending her?
(a) The Mattress.
(b) Patience.
(c) Musk.
(d) Aroma.

3. Where does Xi-feng's carriage briefly stop during the funeral procession for Qin-shi?
(a) At the graveyard.
(b) At a relative's home.
(c) At a farmer's home.
(d) In front of the Imperial Palace.

4. Who gives temporary names to places and things in the garden for Yuan-chun?
(a) Jia Zheng, his literary friends, and Bao-yu.
(b) Xi-feng.
(c) Jia Zheng and Yuan-chun.
(d) Bao-yu and Qin Zhong.

5. What does Xi-feng's leadership bring to the Ning house?
(a) Disharmony and distrust.
(b) A tyrannical atmosphere of constant fear.
(c) A slack and uncaring attitude among the servants.
(d) Order and peace.

6. What is Dai-yu trying to do when Bao-yu comes to visit her in Chapter 19?
(a) Write a poem.
(b) Read a poem.
(c) Read a book.
(d) Take a nap.

7. What do Bao-yu's pages take from him after the naming party for the garden for Yuan-chun?
(a) The purse given to him Dai-yu.
(b) All of his trinkets.
(c) All of his wine.
(d) His magical jade.

8. To whose house does Bao-yu wander to to study to look at a painting that he likes?
(a) His uncle Feng-shu.
(b) His friend Qin-shi.
(c) His cousin Ming.
(d) His cousin Zhen.

9. What sound comes from one of Bao-yu's rooms when the girls are ganging up on him?
(a) Quiet discussion.
(b) Angry voices.
(c) Laughing voices.
(d) Singing.

10. Who calls for Bao-yu to tell the boy he is to be moved in with the girls?
(a) Grandmother Jia.
(b) Aroma.
(c) Xi-feng.
(d) Jia Zheng.

11. For what does Yuan-chun request octets be written?
(a) Two enormous trees in the garden.
(b) Bao-yu and Dai-yu's graduations from school.
(c) Each of her future visits to the garden.
(d) Four special places in the garden.

12. What servant finds a lock of The Mattress's hair in Jia Lian's things?
(a) Lin-yang.
(b) Patience.
(c) Aroma.
(d) Tealeaf.

13. When Dai-yu hears one of Bao-yu's romantic stories, she becomes _____.
(a) Playful.
(b) Attracted to Bao-yu.
(c) Happy.
(d) Offended.

14. What are Aroma's overall plans for Bao-yu?
(a) To take his money.
(b) To leave the service of the Jia family.
(c) To work on his character flaws.
(d) To sleep with him.

15. Who does Bao-yu see sleeping with a girl?
(a) Xi-feng.
(b) Tealeaf.
(c) Darling.
(d) Precious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who leads Yuan-chun's arrival at her garden?

2. What is purchased for Yuan-chun's first visit to her garden?

3. In Xi-feng's dream, why is Qin-shi concerned about the family falling on hard times?

4. Who dies at the end of Chapter 16?

5. What did Bao-yu not allow to be taken from him by his pages?

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